The comprehensive health and wellness programming available from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center — one of the largest academic health care centers in the nation and the No. 1 ranked adult hospital in the Columbus region — can transform your organization’s performance.
While health and wellness benefits have become an organizational necessity, the actual services provided to your team should be targeted to address their most significant health challenges and concerns.
Our research-driven approach gives you a competitive advantage by helping you:
- Lower health care costs
- Prevent injury and illness
- Shorten recovery times
- Improve morale and engagement
- Boost productivity
- Reduce absenteeism
- Attract and retain staff
- Streamline employment screening and testing
Build a program that matches your needs with just one health care partnership
Evidence-based solutions
As an academic medical center, our recommendations are built using:
- The latest research and scientific evidence
- Our decades of clinical experience
- Your own team’s actual health risks and concerns
- Your organization’s goals employee-health-and-wellness
One stop for all your employee health and wellness needs
With national and international experts from nearly every medical specialty, we can customize your health program to match your organization’s specific requirements.
We can even tailor offerings by location, health profile, job type or individual employee interests.
Responsive partnership
Our goal is to eliminate any gaps in employee health with innovative programs you won’t get from others.
While we can design and manage a plan of any size or complexity, you can also use our services to complement existing health and wellness programs that you already offer.
Easily evolve your plan as goals change or employee demographics shift.
Choose from a full menu of solutions
Don’t settle for an employee health program that simply functions as a nice gesture. Invest in a plan that can transform your employees’ lives and your organization’s culture.
There’s no need to limit your wish list either. If you’re looking for a specific resource or need something beyond the services listed here, we have the resources to design and support a custom solution.
Wellness & Resiliency
Help your employees develop a proactive approach to physical and mental health that builds resiliency, improves quality of life and reduces health risks.
Our targeted, research-backed offerings are designed to meet individuals where they are and help them establish new patterns of self-care, reduce stress and build confidence. We even have audience-specific programming for athletes, the military, first-responders, trauma survivors and more.
Fitness and Injury Prevention or Recovery
If fitness is a job requirement for your employees, you serve athletes or you want to reduce injuries or time lost to injuries, our team of specialists from sports medicine, physical therapy, orthopedics and other medical disciplines can help.
Services can include, but are not exclusive to, on-site evaluations, fitness classes, strength and conditioning programs, concussion evaluation, sports psychology, asthma management and post-injury care.
Occupational Health Services
Experts from Ohio State’s Occupational Health Services can provide injury care, health education, preventive care and around-the-clock treatment for your employees, as well as after-hour care at one of our Urgent Care or Emergency Departments which are open 24/7, 365-days a year.
Partnering with a well-managed occupational medicine program can help you cut your overall Workers’ Compensation costs; meet corporate, state and federal regulations and reduce long-term health risks.
On-Site/Near-Site Care
Give your team expert care that’s quick and convenient, so they spend less time worried about their health.
For the quickest care, we can embed an Ohio State clinician at your location — every day or as needed — or your employees can schedule a convenient appointment at one of our many health care facilities in central Ohio.
Specialty Care
We offer preventive care, health education programs and specialized treatment for individuals or groups based on their health risks, jobs or lifestyles.
As examples, you can select innovative Mental and Behavioral Health programs, a visit from our Mobile Mammography unit or job-specific services, such as tactical training for first responders or our Executive Health Program for those in upper management.
The advantages of partnership with Ohio State
Give your people the best chance for better health by connecting them to a top-rated academic medical center with more than 24,500 employees dedicated to research, education, patient care and community engagement.
We’re nationally recognized
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center has appeared on the U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” ranking for 31 consecutive years – making us the No. 1 ranked hospital in central Ohio.
We’re also nationally ranked in 10 areas of complex specialty care and recognized as high performing in two adult specialties and 16 procedures and conditions.
Breakthroughs happen here
We’re ranked No. 39 for research funding from the National Institutes of Health, and you’ll find more than 25 core research labs and 20 research centers and institutes at our medical center.
Our 4,000+ active research studies and clinical trials also gives your team access to therapies that may not be available anywhere else or at only a few other locations nationwide.
We continue to add accolades and achieve new milestones
- More Castle Connolly “Top Doctors” than any other central Ohio hospital
- The 3rd largest cancer hospital in the nation and one of only 56 NCI Comprehensive Cancer Centers (designated since 1976)
- The only adult ABA-verified Burn Center in central Ohio
- The region’s first proton therapy facility
- Nursing honors that include Magnet® designation and the Beacon Award for Excellence
- Nationally ranked as a top 20 transplant program by volume
More about employer solutions
Recent statistics reveal that the average return on investment for an employer “wellness program” — which can be a broad term that applies to a range of health care activities and services, including preventive care, education and other medical care — is six-to-one.
- After launching a wellness program:
- Absenteeism can decrease 14-19%.
- 60% of employees say they’re more productive, 56% report having fewer sick days and 30% say they’ve had a disease diagnosed due to their participation.
- When employers promote wellness, job satisfaction increases:
- 80% of employees say they enjoy work, and 85% say they intend to stay with their employer.
- This is in contrast to organizations that aren’t engaged with staff wellness, where only 40% of employees report work enjoyment and just 58% say they intend to stay with their current employer.
- 87% of new prospects evaluate available health and wellness offerings when considering a new job offer.
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
- Hospitals – 7
- University Hospital
- Ohio State East Hospital
- James Cancer Hospital
- Ross Heart Hospital
- Brain and Spine Hospital
- Harding Hospital
- Dodd Hall Rehabilitation Hospital
- (An 8th hospital, the new inpatient tower, opens 2026)
- Patient Admissions – 60,713
- Outpatient Visits – 1.8 million
- Telehealth Visits – 137,684
- Births – 5,323
- Emergency Department visits – 120,486
- Surgeries – 56,040
- Employees – 24,507
- Physicians – 2,011
- Residents and Fellows – 1,013
- Nursing Staff – 4,987
- Volunteers – 852, donating 29,063 service hours and an estimated community benefit equal to $362 million
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James)
- Third-largest cancer hospital in the country
- One of 56 NCI Comprehensive Cancer Centers (designated since 1976)
- 5,200+ faculty and staff
- 250+ volunteers
- 1,700+ cancer researchers
(All facts based on Fiscal Year 2023)
Ohio State has the flexibility and range of resources to work with any organization to improve their health and wellness offerings. We currently partner with:
- Local municipalities
- First-responders
- Universities and colleges for athletic training and medical services, as well as medical care and dedicated clinics for students, faculty and staff
- High school athletic departments
- Corporations and smaller local businesses
- Manufacturing facilities
- Health systems that need to augment their own services
Getting started is easy
Contact us at Employer.Solutions@osumc.edu.
Contact Ohio State’s Employer Health Solutions for a no-obligation introductory meeting — either virtual or in person — to discuss your organization’s health care concerns, operational goals, timeline, budget and areas of interest.
If you’re not quite sure where to start, that’s OK too.
- We can conduct a team survey or onsite assessment to identify health concerns or specific workplace conditions that may be triggering physical and/or mental health conditions.
- Using this data, we can then identify appropriate solutions that serve your goals.